Finding a list of all inbound links
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Hello.
I just used Open Site Explorer to find inbound links to a site. But it does not seem to list all inbound links.
I will be changing a lot of urls on the site, and I would like to put in 301 redirects only for the pages that have links to them. Is there a way to find all inbound links and the specific pages they link to?
Thank you!
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Thank you, Matt!
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Thank you, George!
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I was doing recovery for a client after a major algo drop killed them (-94% in a week). Anyways, they were adamant about getting a "FULL list of links."
What we did was run OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic, Webmasters Tools, Analytics and a couple other site reports, then accumulate those. You still won't have everything but you probably never will. You can also scrape some Google data if you think it's a worthwhile use of time. We used importXML to scrape all the links that linked to us but it was still incomplete, took forever, and still didn't export more than a couple thousand links.
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OSE runs off it's own link index and pulls data from google and bing. You have no guarantee of finding all inbound links to you with any tool of this nature.
You could use google analytics and look at referring sources over the past year and where they went. You would pretty much just have to sift through the list of pages painstakingly to make sure you have 301's for them. This is the only way I can think of to be sure you catch everything.
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